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As expected, Win10 version 1809 launched today – but don’t panic
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anonymous
GuestOctober 2, 2018 at 6:10 pm #221014As quoted on the blog, from Microsoft:
Once there, simply click โCheck for updatesโ to begin the download and installation process.
I could purchase the full sized, hardbound edition of the current Oxford English Dictionary. Spend some personal time blacking out all entries, leaving just the words check, download, and instal. Then send this gift to Redmond. But I doubt it would have any effect.
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean โ neither more nor less.” (thanks Wikiquote)
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KevinG3
AskWoody PlusOctober 2, 2018 at 8:34 pm #221051Well darn…it was a Tuesday so I thought “let’s see what’s shakin’ ”
Sure ‘nuf, here comes 1809, fortunately it’s my gaming machine…and when I say “gaming” I’m talkingย Bejeweled 2. It’s an old 64 bit Dell with an Asus MB running a Core2 Quad.
It hasn’t crashed yet, of course, it hasn’t restarted either.
I can watch it from here, if it goes into a seizure I’ll get back to you, if it blows up I imagine there’ll be pictures at 11:00
Hmmmmย 42%ย ย installed and in no hurry, this is a big one
I’ll get back after the restart and I check out the peripherals/scanner/cam/printer etc.
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KevinG3
AskWoody PlusOctober 3, 2018 at 4:18 pm #221309Here’s my update to 1809 experience – Yup, I asked for it ๐ย ย –
Last night all seemed well, glad I went right to bed because if I’d checked further I might notย have slept as well….
About an hour ago my 2 monitors ((Nvidiaย Gforce 210) went into pastel pixel mania in a totally artistic form, some 4″ squares, a couple 4×6″ rectangles then some fancy triangles until the whole screen was filled with pastel pixels (each color was maybe 5 sq pixels or so) then black/colorpixel/black…. both monitors but not simultaneous – 1 then the other then back then forth, glad I don’t have epilepsy.
Then it totally recovered as if nothing ever happened.
I then noticed a couple notifications which, to be honest, had probably been there since last night.
1) Windows uninstalled CCCleaner during upgrade
2) Windows uninstalled the remainder of my Lifecam 5000 software (mostly, it’s still usingย VPUGraph.dll in PFiles(86)
CCCleaner is also completely gone from Pfiles and Pdata
I can still print and scan, Whoopee!
Did I have “Dark” mode in explorer before? That seems new, I like it
That’s it for now
Kevin
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EP
AskWoody_MVPOctober 4, 2018 at 8:18 pm #221763whoa, upgrading to v1809 removes the CCleaner program?
gwa ha ha ha! ๐
have you mentioned the problem to Avast in the Avast forums?
https://forum.avast.com/index.php
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anonymous
Guestanonymous
GuestOctober 4, 2018 at 6:44 am #221463I have to laugh at the Clipboard changes. Now you can save multiple clips! โฆ except that you could already do that with Clipbook Viewer in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and NT 4.0!
True. MS is not creating anything new. Just recycling previous stuff. MS is trying to reinvent the wheel and coming up with same thing that rectangle and oval are not wheels.
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anonymous
GuestOctober 4, 2018 at 7:35 pm #221755MS is not creating anything new. Just recycling previous stuff.
Hey, c’mon, give them a break. It can’t be easy conceiving and coding a stream of new features at the breakneck pace (break-Windows pace?) required to attempt to justify Microsoft’s way-too-frequent Win10 Feature Updates.
As for me, I gotta say I’m really looking forward to the killer feature rumored to be in development for Win10 v1903… “Clippy – the Windows Assistant”! ๐
RetiredGeek
AskWoody MVPOctober 4, 2018 at 10:03 pm #221767Hey Y’all,
Installed 1809 successfully on my test machine. Put it through it’s paces and seems to work just fine. You can see the details of my testing here. ๐
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RetiredGeek
AskWoody MVPOctober 8, 2018 at 1:56 pm #222873Hey Y’all,
Here’s an update.
Even though things seemed to be working properly and I didn’t lose any user files I discovered this today.
Notice that Windows thinks my Documents are on the C: drive when I had them redirected to the G: drive. They are still there on the G: drive but the shortcut under C:UsersBruce points to C:. Pay attention to the date the Documents folder was created. I didn’t notice this before as I have Office set to look on G: as well as PowerShell which is where I spend most of my time. You’ll also notice that there is no LOCATION tab!
Restoring my Macrium Reflect Image as I write this.
HTH :cheers:
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Microfix
AskWoody MVPOctober 8, 2018 at 2:09 pm #222883Good find! Interesting that there is no location tab in the Documents folder properties, which begs the question, why would they change with this? What were they trying to achieve?
Personally, I’ve never use default location folders for Windows and have personal/ work files situated elsewhere, disassociated with defaults since the days of WinXP.
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KevinG3
AskWoody PlusOctober 9, 2018 at 3:22 pm #223145Hi Geek,
Although I don’t keep much there I Do actually have a “Location” tab where you don’t.
One thing I just noticed is that “Windows.old” has absolutely no personal info in it. My User/Kevin/docs/Pictures and Music all carried over, and it left my actual document folder alone (which is on a 500gig spinner as “D: Documents”) but that Windows.Old folder seems pretty useless. Also there are no non-MS applications left in “Windows.old/Program Files(86)”
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